Waad AlBawardi

Alumni

Master student

Alumni

Biography

Current job: 

Ph.D. Student at the University of Edinburgh

Research Interests

Waad is interested in several areas including RNA interference, nuclear organization, and understanding how chromatin structure affects genome stability. She is currently working on generating a stable HepG2/HeLa cell line with shRNAs against hDICER1 and hAgo1 to investigate their function within the nucleus. 

Education

  • ​BSc. Clinical Laboratory Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, 2015  ​

KAUST Affiliations

● ​​KAUST Visiting Student Research Internship Program​ (VRSP​)
● KAUST Environmental Epigenetics Program (KEEP)
● Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE)